Hello Stan, I would recommand you first to try to fix some bugs in existing packages, here's the full list of packages and their issues
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-java-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org You can then try to package a new program (wish list here: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/RequestedPackages), but I would go with a library, they are much easier to package. Jigsaw is a very interesting project, but so big that you may have an hard time on it. You'll need to master at least packaging simple libraries, using Git - to keep track of the vast amount of code - and compiling C++ code for the JNI bindings. And of course, understand the fundamentals behind Jigsaw, like the concepts of modularity, classloading... Ludovic On 23/03/11 22:24, Niels Thykier wrote: > > On 2011-03-23 08:28, Stan Ioan-Eugen wrote: >> Hello, > >> I'm Eugen and I wish that Java has better support in Debian. I use >> Debian daily on my laptop for more than two years, and up until now I >> have contributed mostly to l10n-romanian. For about a year I started >> learning Java, I like the language and I think I can help. > > > Hi and welcome, > > A helping hand is always appreciated in improving support for Java in > Debian. > >> I am applying for Debian GSoC and hopefully I will package jigsaw [1] >> for Debian for this summer, but regardless of that I hope that by fall >> I am ready and worthy of applying for Debian maintainer. > > > I am not directly involved with the Debian GSoC. Nevertheless that > sounds like a decent plan. XD > Feel free to ping me a bit down the road to add support for this stuff > in javahelper (so I can convince Matthew to do it ^^ ) > >> I have started reading [0] and I am interested in packaging a small >> java application for Debian so I am looking for a sponsor. I am >> looking for something small to get me started and work my way up to >> more complicated stuff. I am thinking of Selenium IDE [2] which I >> used a little bit or Squirell-sql. But if there are other more >> important/urgent things to be done I will be happy to help. > >> [0] http://wiki.debian.org/Java >> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/Jigsaw >> [2] http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/ >> [3] http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/ > >> Regards, > > > As I recall squirel-sql is already packed but still missing a sponsor > and my experience with IDEs is that they tend to be "very complicated" - > just look at the current status of netbeans. :P > > ~Niels > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d8bc8aa.3080...@laposte.net
